Category Climate change

Yes, Kansas

Citing concerns about global warming, Kansas’ top regulator today denied a long-awaited permit to build a controversial coal plant in western Kansas. This is further proof, if any still be needed, that concern about global warming is a mainstream issue…

Dealing with drought

Reduced snowpack due to global warming may prove a bigger problem than rising oceans. But if we get past the Yuck Factor, then water can be reprocessed, saving enormous amounts of money and water as well. Perhaps we will have…

Take a bow, Al Gore

Eight years ago, after losing the 2000 presidential race, he was mocked and assumed to be washed up. Today,  after co-founding cable channel Current TV and winning an academy award, he’s won the Nobel Peace Prize and helped enormously to…